Legal glossary
“water-course”
Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873 · s. 3
(2) "Water-course".— "water-course" means any channel which is supplied with water from a canal, but which is not maintained at the cost of the State Government, and all subsidiary works belonging to any such channel;
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